On May 16, 2017, Rosen was confirmed as United States Deputy Secretary of Transportation by a 56–42 vote. Because it was an election year, with the opposition party in control of the Senate, the Senate Judiciary Committee failed to give his nomination a hearing and vote, and the nomination lapsed at the end of the year. The American Bar Association reported to then-Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy that their evaluation had unanimously given Rosen their highest rating. In 2008, President Bush nominated Rosen to become a federal judge in Washington D.C. While serving as General Counsel at DOT, Rosen also testified before Congress on numerous occasions on a wide range of subjects, including Amtrak. In 2005-2006, Rosen was also designated as the government’s representative on the Amtrak Board of Directors. Among other things, Rosen led DOT regulatory reform efforts, to achieve regulatory objectives in more efficient and less costly ways. He was also the first Asian-American member of a President’s Cabinet.ĭuring those years, Rosen oversaw the wide-ranging activities of more than 400 lawyers, while also playing a senior management role in a Department with a total budget of approximately $60 billion. Mineta had previously been President Clinton’s Secretary of Commerce, and he was the only Democrat in the George W. DOT General counsel įrom 2003 to 2006, after unanimous confirmation by the US Senate, Rosen was appointed general counsel at the United States Department of Transportation and acted as counsel for then-Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta.
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īeginning in 1996, through 2003, Rosen was also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught Professional Responsibility (Legal Ethics). He was elected to be a member of the American Law Institute in 1996. In May 2022, he was appointed to chair Virginia’s Commission to Combat Antisemitism. As of July 2021 he is a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. In May 2019, he moved to the Department of Justice as deputy attorney general, and from December 24, 2020, to January 20, 2021, as acting attorney general. In 2017, he returned to federal government service, serving as deputy secretary of the Department of Transportation. Īfter his public service, he returned to Kirkland & Ellis in 2009, and in total worked there for nearly 30 years. He left the firm in 2003 and began working for the U.S. He served in several management roles thereafter, and was elected to the firm’s global management committee in 1999, at age 41. He handled complex business litigation for major companies like GM, AOL, Netscape, Marriott, and others. Rosen became a partner in 1988, at age 30. Rosen joined Kirkland & Ellis in 1982 as an associate in the firm’s Washington DC office. Deval Patrick, and future Rhode Island US Senator Jack Reed. Other notable political figures from his Harvard Law School class included future US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales (2005-2007), future Massachusetts Gov.
He then graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, receiving his Juris Doctor in 1982. He graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1979 after serving as president of the student council in his third and final year of college. His parents were not college graduates, but he has said that they wanted him to become one. Rosen attended Brockton High School, where he was editor of the high school newspaper. Rosen, but the plot highlights the former president’s desire to batter the Justice Department into advancing his personal agenda.Rosen was born to a Jewish family in Boston and grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts. Clark at the top of the department to carry out that plan.
The investigations were opened following a New York Times article that detailed efforts by Jeffrey Clark, the acting head of the Justice Department’s civil division, to push top leaders to falsely and publicly assert that ongoing election fraud investigations cast doubt on the Electoral College results. Rosen had a two-hour meeting on Friday with the Justice Department’s office of the inspector general and provided closed-door testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Saturday. Trump subvert the results of the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the interviews. Rosen, who was acting attorney general during the Trump administration, has told the Justice Department watchdog and Congressional investigators that one of his deputies tried to help former President Donald J.
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